Much as been said of James Cook (and to some extent Joseph Banks) on the Endeavour voyage but I'm curious to know Aboriginal mobs think of the other notable crew members: Ra'iātean navigator and high priest Tupaia and the artist Sydney Parkinson? Both were arguably the only crew members to have at least some degree of acquaintance with Aboriginal language and customs (unlike Cook et all). They both (alongside Banks) recorded 130 words of the Guuggu Ymithir language at Wabalumbaal Birri/Endeavour River: https://www.nla.gov.au/cook-and-the-pacific/first-nations-voices

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It's possible Tupaia may have gifted Tahitian tapa to Guugu Ymithir. I do vaguely recall Worimi historian James Maynard remarking that Sydney Parkinson should be on Aussie currency, but I may have to verify that quote Tupaia also painted Eora fishing at Karma/Botany Bay: https://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/endeavour-voyage/kamay-botany-bay

He was far more acquainted with the Māori of Aotearoa/New Zealand, who remembered him as the captain of the Endeavour rather than Cook. Te Reo Māori and Reo Tahiti are more or less mutually intelligible, unlike Aboriginal languages.

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It seems that Guugu Ymithir people have had been far more acquainted with Cook the Endeavour crew members than Eora and other Aboriginal mobs. The invasion of Karmay/Botany Bay seems to be implanted in the Australian public conscience more so than the 'first act of Aboriginal Reconciliation and Wabalumbaal Birri/Endeavour River. https://press.anu.edu.au/news-events/achieving-reconciliation

There was also also an encounter in 1777 between Cook's crew and Palawa-Pakana in Luruwita/Tasmania. But I haven't seen/heard any Aboriginal perspectives on that encounter.